This article is from PLoS ONE , volume 9 . Abstract X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) is the epigenetic transcriptional silencing of an X-chromosome during the early stages of embryonic development in female eutherian mammals. XCI assures monoallelic expression in each cell and compensation for dosage-sensitive X-linked genes between females (XX) and males (XY). DNA methylation at the carbon-5 position of the cytosine pyrimidine ring in the context of a CpG dinucleotide sequence (5meCpG) in...
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4117532

This article is from Genome Announcements , volume 2 . Abstract We present the complete genome sequence of Azospirillum brasilense Az39, isolated from wheat roots in the central region of Argentina and used as inoculant in extensive and intensive agriculture during the last four decades. The genome consists of 7.39 Mb, distributed in six replicons: one chromosome, three chromids, and two plasmids.
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110221

Humans, like many other animal species, often make choices under social influence. Experiments in ants and fishes have shown that individuals choose according to estimations of which option to take given private and social information. Principled approaches based on probabilistic estimations by agents give mathematical formulas explaining experiments in these species. Here we test whether the same principled approaches can explain social influence in humans. We conduct a large online field...
Topics: Physics and Society, Computers and Society, Physics, Social and Information Networks, Computing...
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00770